Use of synthetic surfactant vesicles as electron storage systems
Abstract
The use of dioctadecyldimethylammonium chloride, a cationic surfactant vesicle, to facilitate charge separation and electron storage was investigated using Ru(bipy)32+(bipy = 2,2′-bipyridyl) and zinc tetra-methylpyridyl porphyrin as sensitizers and an alkyl-substituted methylviologan as an electron relay.